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The Lenham Cross

Lenham, Kent

A giant chalk cross cut to remember the village's war dead.

On the hillside above Lenham, a huge cross was cut into the chalk in 1922 to remember the men of the village killed in the First World War. Names from the Second World War were added later.

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When
1922
Where
51.2430, 0.7330
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Seen from the village and the Pilgrims' Way footpath.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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